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What gameplay items would you like to see in potential University and Farming packs?
University:
Bikes
Bunk-beds
Pull-down beds
Vending machines
Major specific items
Drum kits
Farming:
Canning station
Chicken, cow and pig coops
Tractor
Bikes
Bunk-beds
Pull-down beds
Vending machines
Major specific items
Drum kits
Farming:
Canning station
Chicken, cow and pig coops
Tractor
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Comments
University:
loft beds (with a desk underneath)
drawing desks/tables
canteen equipment (like cafe bars but with food)
backpacks (to replace or complement the personal inventory)
futon beds
Farming:
spinning wheel
knitting items/looms
a well
wheelbarrow
I'm probably repeating myself with those kinda ideas everywhere but it's really things I'd love included: knitting, quilting, sewing, crochet, weaving... they all would fit with a farm life theme and could even have unlockable items, be it decorative or clothing. (I'm gonna keep dreaming)
Nectar making
Sliding barn door
Nectar making (Wine making) in a Farming pack!
Store the bottles in your nectar cellar to increase their value over time!
Sliding barn door (big and small!)
Drums really ought come in a bands specific pack, but could be included if that's not gonna happen, as should other instruments. Give us a tambourine, ukulele, banjo, squeeze box, and hurdy-gurdy. Lets make folk bands cool again. (not that they ever were).
Farming:
I'd like to see items for at least two styles of farming and production, old fashioned small scale, and modern larger scale. They might as well cater to those who want the old world stuff, there's a fair bit of demand for it from players, and they are methods that are still used by some tiny scale farms. If you've only got one cow, or a couple of goats, hand milking is more likely than using a machine.
Sheep, goats, alpaca (or llama) to shear.
- Shears in two styles, the classic click-click shears, and the modern bzzzzzz shears.
- Carding brushes, carding wheel, mechanical carder.
- Classic spinning wheel, big wheel spinning wheel, mechanical spinning wheel.
- Table loom, wall loom, mechanical loom.
Cows, goats, and sheep to milk.- Murphy beds and bunk beds
- Arcade-like vending machines and drink dispensers
- Sleeping bags
- Musical instruments like drum and bass
- Beer juice/nectar keg
I have an idea too for a Svandinavian (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic inspired) farm pack:
Introduction:
Welcome to the sweet country life in the Scandinavian! Move you family into a modern farm with simplistic furnitures and make a big fortune by having a lot of animals and crops and producing weed, nectar, milk, wool, meet and eggs. Or if you prefer the simple life, start a traditional farm with a few chickens and perhaps a horse and dress up with a flower crown.
Do many activities like sewing, knitting and nectar brewing. When you are hungry, enjoy eat out meal, meat balls and layer cake.
While the adults are working, let the children play with wooden toys or jumping the rope. Or perhaps they will make a perform a viking play for the grandparents.
When done working and playing, let the whole family dress up in traditional Scandinavian clothing and enjoy the folk dance.
Or just go for a walk or take the bike and enjoy the northern lights, high mountains and green fields with the solar and wind power systems in the distance.
The scandinavian countries are known for the happy populations. The reason for this is not the rainy weather, but our welfare systems: Sometimes you can’t find a job cause everything is taken. Or you are too old or sick to work. Or perhaps you are just studying, your parents are poor and you do not have time for a job. But don’t worry - the society’s got your back! Everybody will get a decent amount of money and pay a bit of taxes - and everyone, young and old - will get a basic income in return if needed.
Themes in build/buy/create a sim:
All items in build, buy and create a sim has two different aesthetic themes: A modern theme and a traditional theme (perhaps based on the scandinavian / north european 1950s).
Small activities:
Sewing machine
Knitting
A few new recipes or updates of old recipes
Medium activities:
Butter and cheese making
Flour making
Nectar brewing
Chickens and eggs
Big activities:
Cows
Sheep
Create a sim:
Clothes and hairstyles
Horses
New farmer aspiration
New farmer trait (makes you gain farming related skills faster)
Skills
Wool making, sewing and knitting
Butter and cheese making
Weed and flour making
Nectar making
One big world
2 smaller lots (for traditional off the grid farms) - for small and medium activities:
These lots have an edible part where you can build a house and place a chicken house and a few animals and hand run machines for making butter, cheese, flour.
The none-interacting surroundings of these lots are more traditional with nature, old farmhouses and mills.
2 bigger lots (for modern farms) - for big small, medium and big activities:
These lots are bigger and on the edible part you can make a modern farm/ranch.
These livable lots have access to non-edible lots where you can access your many sheep, cows or horses.
1 community lot:
The aesthetics of the lot is based on the traditional and modern style mixed together
Farmers marked: Her you can sell and buy
Every livable lots have an edible part where you can build a house and place a chicken house or a few animals.
Scandinavian culture:
Food:
Oat meal
Layer cake with cream and strawberries on top
Meatballs with potatoes and brown sauce
Activities:
Folk dance (people dancing in groups with tradional clothing)
Midt summer festival (traditional clothing, flower decour, flower crowns, big bon fire)
Biking
Children plays:
Playing with LEGO (scandinavian brand)
Wooden toys
Jumping rope
Architecture:
Today: Very simplistic, often black/white or lighter brown and nature colours
Before: Houses made of red wood and house made of stone
Nature:
Northern lights (aurora borealis)
Flat, green fields and high mountains
Could during the winter and mild summers, often raining
Society and history:
Welfare states (free education and health care)
Liberal values like equality and atheism
Environmentally friendly (solar power, wind energy, water mills)
Vikings and monarchies
But for farming:
the ability to raise farm animals, sell goods like eggs off to grocers, maybe they could do something like they did with Island living and you could preserve the countryside? maybe there would be some kind of storyline involved where you could try and stop massive corporations from turning all the farms into businesses. I'd love to see that. oh and horses!
Farmsheds
Hay, bale hay, feed animals
Tractor
Pigshed
Pigs
Horse
Cattle
Sheep
Llama, alpaca to scare fox away.